Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
The excerpts of this text come from MEMRI. Cornelis Hulsman provided comments in the text.
'Adel Darwish, a columnist for the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, wrote that the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks were the product of the mentality, media, and education in the Arab and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2011
Muhammad Shawqī al-Islāmbūlī, brother of Khālid al-Islāmbūlī (murderer of the late Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadāt), will return to Cairo today (August 28, 2011) coming from Iran, after 20 years of living outside Egypt.
He will then be transfered to al-'Aqrab prison, under tight security measures...
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Shubrāh al-Khaymah erupted after the unfortunate events in the region following the harassment by some of the Christian youth in the area of a Muslim girl. Both a Muslim and a Christian died.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The formation of the new Egyptian cabinet has been again delayed, a day after Prime Minister 'Isām Sharaf was sent to the hospital due to exhaustion.
Despite indications of a resurgence of Islamist sentiments in the country, a recent poll given to protesters has shown that a majority favor a...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Al-Sharq al-Awsat translated an article by David Kirkpatrick, writer for the New York Times, who comments on an incident, first published by al-Wafd, about a girl called Raghdah who reportedly said that Christians kidnapped her and tattooed her hand with a cross.
"Many Coptic Christians are...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Organisation of The Islamic Conference (OIC) [Reviewer's Note: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
83 years after the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the MB has, for the first time, handed over its official documents for its party "Freedom and Justice."
The new founders of the party included 93 Christians and 978 women. Dr. Rafīq Habīb was chosen to be the deputy president of the party...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
Dr. Sa'd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, a professor of political sociology and president of Ibn Khaldūn center for development studies, said in an interview with al-Sharq al-Awsat that Copts had legitimate fears from religious movements and hard-line Muslim preachers have to put their fears in consideration.
He...
Date of source: Monday, May 16, 2011
In al-Hayāh, page 2, May 16, 2011, a score of Egyptians, mostly Copts, were injured in clashes that erupted between participants in a protest around the television building in Maspero area. Un-known people attacked the protest on May 14, 2011, where a number of cars and stores were set on fire....
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Diana Maqalad writes about the new mass media coverage of the sectarian incidents.
The Imbābah incidents, particularly the video of a bearded man [salafī] who said, "we are not going to be real men if we did not burn the churches in Imbābah."
Even if this video was banned by the traditional media,...